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octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: 47189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47189: octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:46:42 +0200

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I tracked down a bug where octave has a function called 'copyfile' which
shells out to call 'cp -r' but in an environment without coreutils, or
when in a script with PATH unset, it fails.

try it out with the following:
touch foo
guix environment --pure --ad-hoc octave-cli -- \
    octave --eval 'copyfile("foo","bar");'

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